#Robinsons Malls

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BALITANG SHOWBIZ: Bacoleña shines with Youthful Glamour at a 1st 'Little Miss Robinsons' 2025 [#OnlyOnAdoNewsNET]

BACOLOD, NEGROS OCCIDENTAL -- A new kiddie star has emerged in the local pageant scene as one young talented girl named 'Ms. Ziah Jane Exaltado' recently crowned the first-ever 'Little Miss Robinsons' (LMR) during the grand coronation held at the Main Atrium of Robinsons Malls: Bacolod last Sunday afternoon (April 27th, 2025 -- Bacolod local time). This inaugural event was organized by 'DA Works Productions' and directed by 'Dwight Morana Jr.', brought out the charm and talent of the young ladies of Negrenses, giving a sweet twist to the conventional pageant format as globally inspired by Miss Universe.

On April 23rd, 24 of the pre-pageant candidates were slashed out to the final 10 contenders, which provided the mood for a day of emotive performances and competitive vigor. The fierce pageant competitors namely 'Shayla Abanco', 'Myka Malacad', 'Thea Rojo', 'Markein Martinez', 'Sheanil Diamante', 'Emma Cruz', 'Edriella Cañada', 'Exaltado' herself, 'Jasiane Villacuatro' and 'Xey Sarito'.

LMR, a new pageant project of Robinsons Malls, one of the Philippines' most prominent shopping mall chains. This regional pageant contest for young Negrenses shows off their talent, confidence and poise, but also creates a sense of community and empowers the Negrosanon youth. Ziah Jane Exaltado', the newly crowned champion gives a glimpse into a promising young talent starting to make a name for herself in the local kids' showbiz scene. In Negros Occidental, meanwhile, her cheerful nature is an extension of a strong-holding passion for creativity and community activism. Since she was the first-timer, her poise and natural charm reveal that she is destined for greater things than local fame in the coming years.

Exaltado took home the prize in 1st Place, followed by Villacuatro in 2nd place and Rojo wrapped in 3rd Place position, as first reported by 'Kapawa News Lifestyle'. The winners receive several cash awards, gift certificates and exclusive gift packs from renowned brands of Play Studio, National Book Store, Robinsons Supermarket, Robinsons Department Store & Greenwich, as well as local floral bouquets from 'Criselda Flower Shop'.

These prizes are subject to final withholding tax, which the regional office of the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) may possibly be managed by Robinsons Malls in this mentioned city. As a fun event, it was well suited to be held in Robinsons Malls, which is famous for its exciting shopping and entertainment experiences. Thus, it is committed to supporting local talent and promoting wholesome family entertainment for the Negrosanons.

Little Miss Robinsons has made quite a buzz for families and pageant enthusiasts alike, as the City of Smiles in Bacolod begins a new chapter of guiding its young stars to shine. The event not only provides a solid platform for young talents but also provides a sense of hope that a brighter future lies ahead for regional pageantry and entertainment for our people of the Negrosanon.

PHOTO COURTESY: Robinsons Malls Bacolod via FB PHOTO-PR BACKGROUND PROVIDED BY: Tegna

SPECIAL THANKS to Dominique Canio for sending us in a news tip!

SOURCE: *https://www.facebook.com/100064858201778/posts/1104523755052888 *https://www.facebook.com/100064858201778/posts/1107033788135218 *https://www.facebook.com/100023398087080/posts/1604537253669529 and *https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robinsons_Malls

-- AdoNewsNET Online Publication Team

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Facts-I-Just-Made-Up has rebranded!

FIJMU has changed its iconic former blurry logo! Once recognizable as a trusted name in lies, the facts icon you all know and love has been changed to a single letter "F" in an attempt to make people forget all the horrible things its owner has done. No longer will Facts be associated with my runaway greed, lack of taste, and outright violation of numerous communications laws, but only with the letter F, which has been traditionally used to pay respects. My greed, tasteless humor, and lies will naturally remain, but this will appease my shareholders* and should keep me out of prison for illegal emerald mining and heavy human rights violations for another week.

*All shares of FIJMU are owned by me, are not publicly traded, and the word "share" is used in the antiquated definition of "the blade of a plowing device," of which I own many now because there was a sale at the local antique mall and I had to buy a bunch to get a group deal on a copy of the old Playgirl magazine where you can see Edward G. Robinson's left ball.

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(CNN) — Mark Robinson, the controversial and socially conservative Republican nominee for governor of North Carolina, made a series of inflammatory comments on a pornography website’s message board more than a decade ago, in which he referred to himself as a “black NAZI!” and expressed support for reinstating slavery, a CNN KFile investigation found.

Despite a recent history of anti-transgender rhetoric, Robinson said he enjoyed watching transgender pornography, a review of archived messages found in which he also referred to himself as a “perv.”

The comments, which Robinson denies making, predate his entry into politics and current stint as North Carolina’s lieutenant governor. They were made under a username that CNN was able to identify as Robinson by matching a litany of biographical details and a shared email address between the two.

Many of Robinson’s comments were gratuitously sexual and lewd in nature. They were made between 2008 and 2012 on “Nude Africa,” a pornographic website that includes a message board. The comments were made under the username minisoldr, a moniker Robinson used frequently online.

Robinson listed his full name on his profile for Nude Africa, as well as an email address he used on numerous websites across the internet for decades.

CNN is reporting only a small portion of Robinson’s comments on the website given their graphic nature.

Many of Robinson’s comments on Nude Africa stand in contrast to his public stances on issues such as abortion and transgender rights.

Publicly, Robinson has fiercely argued that people should use bathrooms only that correspond to the gender they were assigned at birth. He’s also said transgender women should be arrested for using women’s restrooms.

“If you’re a man on Friday night, and all the sudden Saturday, you feel like a woman, and you want to go in the women’s bathroom in the mall, you will be arrested, or whatever we gotta do to you,” Robinson said at a campaign rally in February 2024. “We’re going to protect our women.”

Yet privately under the username minisoldr on Nude Africa, Robinson graphically described his own sexual arousal as an adult from the memory of secretly “peeping” on women in public gym showers as a 14-year-old. Robinson recounted the story as a memory he said he still fantasized about.

“I came to a spot that was a dead end but had two big vent covers over it! It just so happened it overlooked the showers! I sat there for about an hour and watched as several girls came in and showered,” Robinson wrote on Nude Africa.

CNN is not publishing the graphic sexual details of Robinson’s story.

“I went peeping again the next morning,” Robinson wrote. “but after that I went back the ladder was locked! So those two times where [sic] the only times I got to do it! Ahhhhh memories!!!!”

In other comments on Nude Africa, Robinson discussed his affinity for transgender pornography.

“I like watching tranny on girl porn! That’s f*cking hot! It takes the man out while leaving the man in!” Robinson wrote. “And yeah I’m a ‘perv’ too!”

In an interview with CNN on Thursday, Robinson repeatedly denied that he made the comments on Nude Africa.

“This is not us. These are not our words. And this is not anything that is characteristic of me,” Robinson said. Presented with the litany of evidence connecting him with the minisoldr user name on Nude Africa, Robinson said, “I’m not going to get into the minutia of how somebody manufactured this, these salacious tabloid lies.”

CNN first reached out to Robinson Tuesday morning with evidence connecting him to the comments on Nude Africa. It took his campaign two days to respond and issue a denial.

During his interview with CNN, Robinson repeatedly said the issues that faced North Carolinians were more important than what he called “tabloid trash,” and he steered the conversation toward attacking his opponent in the race, Democrat Josh Stein, the state’s attorney general.

“We are not getting out of this race. There are people who are counting on us to win this race,” Robinson said.

A history of controversial statements

Campaigning for lieutenant governor in 2020, Robinson advocated for a complete abortion ban without exceptions. He later expressed regret in 2022 for paying for his now-wife to have an abortion in the 1980s.

Now campaigning for governor, he says he supports a so-called “heartbeat” bill that would ban abortion when a heartbeat is detected – approximately six weeks – with exceptions for rape, incest and health of the mother.

But writing as minisoldr on Nude Africa in December 2010, Robinson said he did not care about a celebrity having an abortion.

“I don’t care. I just wanna see the sex tape!” Robinson wrote.

In another thread, commenters considered whether to believe the story of a woman who said she was raped by her taxi driver while intoxicated. In response, Robinson wrote, “and the moral of this story….. Don���t f**k a white b*tch!”

Robinson, who would become North Carolina’s first Black governor if elected, also repeatedly maligned civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., attacking him in such intense terms that a user accused him of being a white supremacist.

“Get that f*cking commie bastard off the National Mall!,” Robinson wrote about the dedication of the memorial to King in Washington, DC, by then-President Barack Obama.

“I’m not in the KKK. They don’t let blacks join. If I was in the KKK I would have called him Martin Lucifer Koon!” Robinson responded.

CNN’s reporting on Robinson’s comments comes a few weeks after The Assembly, a North Carolina digital publication, reported that Robinson frequented local video pornography shops in the 1990s and 2000s. The story cited six people who interacted and saw him frequent the stores in Greensboro, North Carolina. A spokesperson for Robinson called the story false and a “complete fiction.”

Despite earning the full endorsement of former President Donald Trump and the North Carolina Republican Party, Robinson faces an uphill battle in the race for governor against Stein.

Robinson’s history of controversial remarks, including mocking school shooting survivors, his past support for total abortion bans without exceptions for rape or incest and disparaging the civil rights movement have been a consistent theme in the race. Recent public polling shows Robinson is losing to Stein.

Identifying minisoldr as Robinson

On the Nude Africa website in both comments and his profile, minisoldr offered numerous details that align precisely with Robinson’s personal history.

In his profile, minisoldr listed his full name as “mark robinson” and disclosed a private email address Robinson used elsewhere online. In 2012, a user responded to a comment by calling minisoldr “Mark.”

Minisoldr mentioned in 2008 being married for 18 years, which corresponds with Robinson’s marriage to Yolanda Hill in 1990. In 2011, minisoldr wrote he had been married 21 years. Minisoldr wrote in a 2011 post that he lived in Greensboro, North Carolina, the same town where Robinson lived at the time and currently lives.

In a post in 2012, minisoldr said he served in the Army in the 1980s, during the same time period as Robinson. In his sexually graphic comments detailing watching women in the showers in 2011, minisoldr wrote that his mother worked at an Historically Black College and University (HBCU). Robinson’s mother worked as a custodian at North Carolina A&T State University, an HBCU located in Greensboro.

Both minisoldr and Robinson often posted about the same topics online, including reviews for remote-controlled helicopters, their attraction to specific celebrities and their favorite “Twilight Zone” episode.

The email address associated with minisoldr on Nude Africa was also used by Robinson elsewhere online and social media. On the commenting platform Disqus, a user who joined in April 2011 features Mark Robinson’s photo under the username minisoldr.

Usernames and email addresses from Disqus were publicly leaked online in 2017, according to the company. CNN confirmed that Robinson’s username minisoldr on Disqus shared the same email address as the one used on Nude Africa.

Robinson’s Disqus page is also linked to the Black social networking site Black Planet. The Web Archive shows a user named “minisoldr” described themselves as 40 years old in February 2009 – the same age as Robinson at the time – and living in Greensboro, North Carolina – Robinson’s hometown.

A username often used by Robinson

Robinson has frequently used the username “minisoldr” elsewhere on the internet. On X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, Robinson once used the minisoldr username, according to a screenshot he shared on Facebook in 2018 and data in Robinson’s old tweets.

A YouTube playlist for a user named “minisoldr” features exclusively videos of Robinson. On Pinterest, a user “minisoldr” lists his name as “Mark Robinson.”

The “minisoldr” username has also posted reviews of products and places Robinson has also publicly recommended. On Amazon, a user named “minisoldr” reviewed products frequently shared by Robinson on Facebook, including remote-controlled helicopters. And the same email address and username used on Nude Africa also left reviews on Google for two local businesses Robinson later posted on Facebook that he used.

Robinson’s unique choice of language further links him to the “minisoldr” alias on the pornographic forums. Uncommon phrases such as “gag a maggot,” “dunder head,” “I don’t give a frogs a**,” and “I don’t give two shakes of it” were used both by minisoldr on Nude Africa and by Robinson on his personal Facebook page.

Robinson as minisoldr ‘Slavery is not bad’

In the pornographic forums, Robinson revealed his unvarnished thoughts on issues such as race, gender and abortion.

Writing in a forum discussing Black Republicans in October 2010, Robinson stated unprovoked: “I’m a black NAZI!”

That same month, Robinson wrote in another post that he supported the return of slavery.

“Slavery is not bad. Some people need to be slaves. I wish they would bring it (slavery) back. I would certainly buy a few,” he wrote.

In March 2012, Robinson wrote that he preferred the former leader of Nazi Germany Adolf Hitler over the leadership in Washington during the administration of Barack Obama.

“I’d take Hitler over any of the sh*t that’s in Washington right now!” he wrote.

Robinson’s comments on Nude Africa often frequently contained derogatory and racial slurs directed at Black, Jewish and Muslim people.

In a series of seven posts in October 2011, Robinson disparaged Martin Luther King in such intense terms, calling him a “commie bastard,” “worse than a maggot,” a “ho f**king, phony,” and a “huckster,” that a user in the thread accused him of being in the KKK. Robinson responded by directing a slur at King.

In October 2010, Robinson used the antisemitic slur “hebe” when discussing how he liked the show “Good Times” developed by Norman Lear, saying “the show itself was a bunch of heb [sic] written liberal bullshit!”

While discussing the Taliban, he referred to Muslims as “little rag-headed bastards” and said that “if Muslims took over liberals would be the 1st ones to be beheaded!”

Robinson also used homophobic slurs frequently, calling other users f*gs.

In a largely positive forum discussion featuring a photo of two men kissing after one returned from a military deployment, Robinson wrote the sole negative comment.

“That’s sum ole sick a** f*ggot bullsh*t!” he wrote.

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Spotify Suggestions for Little Space!

Some of my personal favorite songs (and their artists) from my agere playlist! Anything with dashes (/) means there are numerous versions I listen to. Almost everything is clean, but I did mark the ones that are explicit (if I missed any pls let me know!)

Feel free to add your join suggestions in the comments! Hope this helps someone!

Little Space (of course)—SXYE

Million Dreams, Lullaby—Music Box Lullabies

Pure Imagination—Dream Easy Collection

Dearly Beloved—Video Game Music Box

Treehouse—Alex G, Emily Yacina

safe place—Tony22

Boys will be Bugs—Cavetown (TW: Explicit)

Coconut Mall, Mario Kart Wii—Arcade Player

Hikari—Video Game Music Box

Build a Bear—Maggie Brewer

FNAF Security Breach: Daycare theme—Dario D’Aversa/Saccharinne

This is Me—The Greatest Showman

Bubblegum K.K—Qumu/Jayn

First Date—Frad

The Strawberry Cafe—IllustratorJake

UWU—Chevy

Zelda’s Lullaby—Amy Turk

Strawberry Milk—Fluffy Fluff

Flying Strawberry Cow—FroggyChair

It’s a Small World, Lullaby—Hamasaki vs Hamasaki

Face My Fears—Ralpi Composer

Winnie the Pooh—Melody the Music Box

K.K Love Song—Kazumi Totaka

Shadow Bonnie Music box—b1n4ry

Jump Up, Super Star! (Music box version)—Boxyboard

I See the Light, music box version—James Strange

Stars in the Sky—Kid Cudi

Welcome to Wonderland—Anson Seabra

King—Lauren Aqulina

I’m Cute—Animaniacs

Rainbow Connection—Weezer,Haley Williams

Mii Channel—G4M1NG

Fur Elise, Reimagined—Alexander Joseph

Animal Crossing New Horizons Theme—Lullaby Legends

Twinkle, twinkle little star— Sabelia Robles

Wrap Me In Plastic—CHROMANCE, Marcus Layton

Lovely Date—NomnomNami

Gay Fairytale Music Box—Saccharinne

Brahms Lullaby—Lullaby Time/Elliot Gordon

A Thousand Years—Christina Perri/Jade Facer

Try Everything—Shakira

I’m Still Here—John Rzeznik

Nobody—Faith Marie

Flying Stars—Celestaby

putting a spin on big girls don’t cry—egg

putting a spin on love you so—egg

The Court Jester—thquib, FUKASE

Reach for the Stars—Sega Sound Team

Get you to the Moon—Kina, Snow

More than Anything—Hazbin Hotel

Peter Pan Was Right—Anson Seabra

Keep your Head Up Princess—Anson Seabra

The NeverEnding Story—The Birthday Massacre

Any Disney soundtrack (Disney Princesses, Disney Channel themes, Pixie Hollow Fairies, etc)

Music box versions of Disney soundtracks—Melody the Music Box

Sugar Crash!—ElyOtto (TW; Explicit)

Cry Baby (Album)—Melanie Martinez (TW: Explicit)

K-12 (Album)—Melanie Martinez (TW: Explicit)

House Song—Searows

I’ll Always Remember You—Hannah Montana

Bunny, Bunny, Bunny—The Golden Orchestra

Goodbye to a World—Porter Robinson

Liminal Space (Album)—mxmtoom

All We Do—Oh Wonder

You Might Not Like Her—Maddie Zahm

you not the same—TileKid

Kids—Current Joys

Change my Clothes—Dream, Alec Benjamin

I Bet on Losing Dogs—Mitski

Cardigan (TikTok Best Part)—Luke Willies

Disney Classics on Classical Violin (Album)—Matthew Castle

Disney Serenade on Classical Violin (Album)—Matthew Castle

Classic Pops on Classical Violin (Album)—Matthew Castle

Lon Lon Ranch—Super Piano 64

Alice—Avril Lavigne

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rewatching wwdits s5 e1 the mall where the vampires took guillermo to his bday dinner and nandor is being such a bitch to guillermo 😭😭😭

him getting fired this season is very deserved and it's good for him to go through all of that angst now that guillermo is gone 💀

nandor!! this is what happens when you take dating advice from colin robinson and go too hard on the negging!!! 👀

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Things I loved about the first two episodes of WWDITS Season 5 (SPOILERS!!!):

Episode 1:

Laszlo acting like he doesn’t care about Guillermo but he clearly does if he not only noticed he was off but also commented on it

“Cause I’m the king of bottoms”

Nandor clearly not being okay, no matter how many times he says he is

Nandor hypnotizing everyone just so they could forget he tripped

“We are not laughing with you, we are laughing at you”

Nandor breaking down the door

Abandoned orphanage = twinkle twinkle little star apparently

“Your nicest shitty sweater”

Colin Robinson is a waiter I-

“I got so shit on my faced”

All humans work at Panera Bread at some point in their lives

Guillermo’s pause for the editors to put a romantic montage of him and Nandor

The sheer amount of to go bags from the restaurant

How they immediately came back after hearing “mall”

All of them immediately walking away after Guillermo tells them to stay put

Laszlo following Guillermo

Nandor having the time of his life on the carousel

The boss not even noticing all the blood

Guillermo not needing glasses anymore but wearing them anyway to not tip anybody off

Nandor getting a foot locker

Guillermo using said foot locker as a coffin

Episode 2:

“You just said doo doo” “touché”

Nadja crying about problems that she caused

The Guide!

The fact that no one noticed she was gone

Laszlo quoting Homer and Sean’s friends saying d’oh

The Guide desperately trying to be Nadja’s friend

Guillermo can make bat ears

Laszlo not knowing who Celine Dion is

“Get in losers, we’re going shopping!”

The destroyed police car

Nandor and Laszlo getting arrested

Laszlo admitting he’s not very good at hypnosis

Nadja also losing her language

There’s a Little Antipaxos!

Nadja talking about how kind she is and ignoring The Guide

A vampire finally got to turn a Jonathan

Never mind

Nandor telling all the cops he’s a captain and letting Laszlo be one of his favorite characters

And then using that power to do whatever he wanted

Laszlo thinking Guillermo had “the shits”

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Robot B9 vs Protector 1

The Robinson's steely centurion from Lost in Space, or Park Plaza Mall's head killbot from Chopping Mall...

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what's your favourite nandor quote/bit/scene? :D

Oh, that’s such a loaded question—it’s like being asked to pick a favourite star out of the night sky. It’s impossible to narrow down a favourite to just one. Especially considering how many great scenes there are that span across six seasons!

I'll name a few,

Any scene when he speaks in Farsi

Any time he does the raptor hands thing or twists the rings on his hands

When he unleashes his "hell hound" Doug Peterson, who effectively has gone the way of Renfield, and announces to the council how he was visited by a slouching beast in the night, and Nandor looks at the camera smiling and points to himself, and mouth's me.

When he got to go on the Merry Go Round at the mall

Any scene with him and food, either cutting it, or pretending to eat it (it's always unhinged in the best way)

Whenever he snuffle laughs at his own jokes

Pilot cringefail husband guyliner Nandor

Any scene showing how much of a capable warlord he still is

Any scene when he's protective (sacrificing himself and his housemates to protect Guillermo from the Vampiric Council, choking Topher, shielding Guillermo with his body when there was a werewolf, and this latest episode which I will not spoil)

Any scene when he is bossy or bitchy

Any scene when he's a little too earnest or shows his feelings (pre-marriage fear confessions my beloved - season 4)

Any scene when he has had existential dread (usually thanks to Colin Robinson)

Any scene when he's jealous or pathetic

The scene when he's sleepy af in the casino episode

Short-short wearing zumba dancing Nandor

Nandor with the family from Wisconsin

Nandor blocking the Suez Canal

Any scene when he mentions his parents or horse John (Jahan)

Any scene when he has his shirt off

Any scene that shows how much he enjoys bottoming

The scene when he's Donald duckin' it while dancing to Bob Seger

The latest scene when he was helping Charmaine take care of the house

Whenever he brushes off his feelings (relatable king)

Any scene that shows his unhinged sexual kinks (dildo outfit orgy episode, bat-werewolf fucking with Gail, Freddie, and... the two Guillermo's fantasy he has from the latest episode)

And gosh, so many more, these are all that I can think of right now off the top of my head.

I just love Nandor. He's the most and honestly my favourite character of the show and I'm going to miss him so much when it's over

(honourable mentions- any scene when he mentions he has head ripping gloves and any scene when he throws up the peace sign)

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a Papa Bear story

♡ PART IV ♡

Characters: Reader, Elvis Presley, Momma, Macy, Tommy, Danny, Mary

Summary: You get asked out on a double date with Macy.

Tags/Warnings: controlling!elvis, subtle themes of domestic violence

Word Count: 2,858

IT ALL HAPPENED so fast. You, Macy, Tommy, and Danny were talking one day after class, and Tommy had the bold idea to go on a double date. Him and Macy, you and Danny. Since the few weeks you'd seen each other at the Mall, you couldn't deny you were hoping something else would come out of it, but you never imagined it would happen so quickly, and the word date would be thrown around! Macy accepted on both of your behalf, and the matter was settled. Next Saturday you'd all go mini golfing and then to a diner afterwards. It would have been perfect if there weren't one not so tiny issue to deal with: you'd have to run the plan by your daddy first, who'd no doubt shut the whole thing down before you could say 'Jack Robinson'.

You waited on the ledge outside school for your momma to pick you up to go home. She was a little late getting there, but it gave you ample time to come up with some ideas to get your way. "Hey Momma," you greeted her, getting into the front seat.

"Hey, baby. What's got you so happy today?"

"Well, I got some good news."

"Good news? What's that?" She pulled away from the curb, glancing at you in curiosity.

"I got asked out. Well, not just me, but my friend Macy, too."

"A double date?" Momma whistled, "that's nice, dear. Your first one, right?"

"Yeah!"

"I'm real happy for you, baby. Not sure how your Daddy's gonna take it, though."

"Yeah..." You said quieter, fiddling with your hands on your skirt. "Actually, about that—"

"Oh no," she shook her head, interrupting you. "I'm not keeping this from him. He'll tan both our hides!"

"Well, no, not keep, per se, just if you could tell him real gently. Maybe he'd take it better from you. I... I really want this, and, and, he has a way of flying off the handle sometimes."

"Don't I know it. Listen, I'll break the news to him slow and gentle-like. I have my ways," she winked back at you. You had no idea what that meant, but you recalled the way he'd come out of their shared bedroom in a better mood than when he went in and figured it had something to do with that. Maybe your momma was magical. You wished she'd share it with you!

Later at dinner, which Elvis was able to be there for after getting a few days off from touring, your momma took over from Mary, the housekeeper, to serve him one of his favorite meals of all time, fried chicken with mashed potatoes and gravy. She did have Mary prepare a coconut cake, however, which would be served with dessert. Elvis slapped his hands together as he sat at the head of the table, grinning down as he was scooped his dish.

"Now this is a welcome home, honey," he smacked your momma's hide, although gently, causing her to blush as she went around to serve you, and then finally herself before sitting opposite Elvis at the other end. You sat adjacent to both of them. After saying grace, you all dug in; you were kicking your legs as you took in your first few bites. Your momma had surely outdone herself!

"Damn, oughta leave for longer next time," your step daddy groaned, eyes closing momentarily as he savored each bite. You pulled your fork away from your mouth which had some chicken pierced on it. "Don't say that, Daddy. I love having you home. We both do."

He turned to look at you fondly, holding your other hand under the table. "Oh, honey bee, I miss y'all too. I hate being on the road so long. It's real lonesome. And a helluva a lot worse on my stomach, too!"

You giggled, but out of the corner of your eye you saw your momma pinch her nose some. She always did that when she disagreed with something. Whatever it was, she decided to keep it to herself, and you figured it had to do with wanting to keep Elvis content when she broke the news.

"You slave away all day on this?" He asked. "No, not all day, but it passed the time. Was nice getting back into cooking again," your momma replied. Since you both came to Graceland to live with Elvis, he'd had his staff stay on and continue their jobs. Mary was in charge of cooking and other household affairs, and she took it very seriously. There was hardly a day your momma was allowed to cook, and while at first she loved the change of pace, she now missed the more mundane tasks.

"Well, if I didn't know any better I'd think you used my own Momma's recipe. She used to make this for me all the time back in the day." You of course had never known Gladys, but you heard so many good things about the woman. The way your daddy spoke of her she was practically a saint in his eyes.

"I'm glad you're enjoying it so much, dear."

"Mhm. Say, how was your day, darlin'?" He spoke to you first, eying you up as he kept shoveling food into his mouth. Your daddy sure could eat; as such he got the biggest plate, and he always finished what was put in front of him.

"It was good..." You said, glancing at your lap. "Yeah?" He hummed. "What was good about it?" You glanced at your mother in a way you thought was surreptitious, but only got your daddy's hackles up. "What was good about it, doll?" He pressed, now too glancing at momma.

"I'll tell you later, dear." Momma said as you too spoke: "I'm a bit tired," and that was a mistake, because Elvis stopped eating. Which was never a good sign.

"What happened?" He repeated. "Someone gon' tell me?"

There was an awkward pause, so quiet you could hear someone out mowing the many lawns of Graceland mansion. "Well?" Daddy's voice started to get testier. You figured it was better to be out with it; he was impatient and stubborn as a mule. He'd all too happily wait you out and be worser for it.

Momma spoke first: "Well, dear, Y/N here got asked out on a date. A double date," she emphasized, "so don't go blowin' anything out of proportion."

"Who said anythin' about blowin' anything out of proportion?" He said, strangely calm.

Momma opened her mouth, then closed it, choosing her words carefully as she too sat down her fork. "Well, you know, honey, I love you, but sometimes you can overreact—"

"Overreact? I'm perfectly able to hold my damn temper," he bit out the words, fist clenching around his napkin. It was utterly ironic, and you couldn't help the giggle that slipped from your mouth, much to momma's widened eyes.

Your daddy's head shifted to you so fast he might've gotten whiplash. "And you, lil' girl, what have you got to say for yourself? Huh? And what's so goddamn funny?!"

"Nothing."

"Yeah, don't sound like nothin'. Who is this boy, anyhow? Ain't I tell you to stay away from 'em? Didn't you promise me?"

"Elvis!" Your momma cried. "Now why would you tell her a thing like that—?"

"Shut your mouth, woman, I'm talkin'. Y/N, you're testin' my patience, speak up!"

Your good mood evaporated at his cold tone, and you saw your momma felt similarly hurt. He hadn't ever yelled at her from what you'd heard, and it wasn't something your real daddy ever did, so it frightened you some. You didn't ever think Elvis would lay a hand on you or momma, but his booming voice shook you to your core. You knew his mood could turn on a dime.

"Uh... U-um..."

"What," he said it like 'wot', his southern twang coming out more in his anger. "Out with it!"

"You're scaring the poor girl," Momma interrupted again, quickly silenced by a glare cut her way.

"H-he's just a boy from school. We're in the same grade together."

"Gimme a name."

"Danny," you whispered.

He stroked his chin, which was developing a five-o'clock shadow. "And how'd ya... hatch this lil' plan o' yours?" He sneered.

"Well, it wasn't really me—"

"Don't lie to me, hunny, you're already on thin ice!"

"I'm not," and you looked him in the eye as you said this. "It was another boy—"

"Another boy? How many boys you been talkin' too?!"

"Oh, Elvis, let the girl speak!"

"Didn't I tell you—"

"Enough!" You shouted. Both of your parents looked at you as if you'd gone crazy. Maybe you had. But you didn't like this! Your daddy had only barely come home and he was already ruining everything!

"Y/N," Momma cried in shock as Elvis went, "Oh, you're in for it now, Y/N Presley!" And you believed him, because he rarely used your name, preferring a term of endearment, and he never, ever used your full name. But all your feelings caught up to you then: you were angry he didn't understand you, and sad that he was being so mean to you and momma, and that he'd probably ruin this shot at happiness for you when you didn't even get to experience it. It was all just so unfair!

"Lil' girl, don't you dare run away from me!" Elvis warned, but you had already taken off, getting a head start that allowed you to climb the stairs faster and slip into your bedroom, shutting the door and locking it behind you. This was another one of your daddy's rules you'd broken: leave your door open, so that he can check on you. You imagined locking it was the equivalent of all hell breaking loose. At this point you didn't care, and besides, daddy was already so furious with you, so what was one more nail in the coffin?

You heard the doorknob jerking from left to right as you laid in bed with the covers over your head, sobbing. Faintly you heard your step daddy order you to 'open this door right now, or else!' You kept shouting 'no' and cried louder. Finally, Elvis seemed to give up, for it grew real quiet and the shadow under the door disappeared. You cried yourself to sleep that night, hugging your big bear to you that Elvis had won at a county fair one summer. It was your favorite bear, and even if you were angry at its owner, it made you calm down enough to fall asleep.

The next morning you slept in, wanting to delay the inevitable as long as you possibly could. Finally, the smell of pancakes and bacon roused you from your bedroom; your stomach was gurgling loudly from not having gone to bed early without finishing dinner. And you knew Mary made the best breakfast in town.

As you crept downstairs, rubbing your eyes, you heard your parents talking in hushed tones, heads bent towards each other. They lifted as they caught you coming around the corner. "Look who's up," your momma said, smiling tiredly. "How'd you sleep?"

Your eyes flit to Elvis, who looked not at all like himself. For one thing, he usually slept in later then you, so even half past eleven was early for him. But more than that, he looked defeated and continued to distance himself from you. You'd hoped he'd calmed down since last night, maybe even come around some. At least he wasn't yelling at you or momma anymore.

"Y/N?" Momma tried again to get your attention.

"Oh, quit you're worryin'. The girl looks fine ta me," Elvis muttered. "Certainly took her time comin' down here. Ain't realize we were such horrible company to keep. "

Momma frowned at him, sighing. "Oh, dear, don't be that way." She'd never say so, but she was starting to feel like there were two children she had to take care of in this household.

"And what way am I bein'?" He groused. She didn't bother answering, knowing it wasn't a fight he'd ever let her win. "I'm goin' back upstairs. Didn't sleep a wink last night."

"But you've barely eaten!"

"I lost my appetite," he bit out, striding past you, monogramed bathrobe whipping past him, stirring some air around you in his hasty departure.

You felt real awful, felt some tears accumulating at the corner of your eyes; you hated to see your daddy so upset with you, and it didn't look like it was anything you could do about it. He'd just have to cooldown. You worried you might have lost your close relationship with him in the process, though. Momma quickly came to comfort you, "Oh, don't cry, baby. Your daddy's just... havin' a hard time comin' around to the fact that you're growing up is all."

"That's it?"

"Yeah. He just needs some time alone right now." She looked at you. "For some reason he's got it set in his mind that you shouldn't be around boys. Said it wasn't proper, and was insisting on maintaing your purity."

"Purity?" You questioned.

"It's got to do with his religious habits, I 'spose. Anyway, I said that's not right to shelter a growing girl like that, she'd only resent him for it and be even more curious to seek out that attention from boys in ways that are even worse. Hell, it's what I did. Your grammy didn't even want me going to school with other kids and decided to homeschool me."

"Really? I didn't know that momma." She nodded. "Over time it caused a rift between us, and it wasn't until I was on my own for several years that we repaired it and I saw where she was comin' from, although I still didn't entirely agree with the way she went about it."

"Still," she went on. "Maybe I shouldn't a' said that, because he got himself all wrapped around the axel again at the idea of you following after me in that way and he went and spoiled his breakfast." She shook her head, laughing a bit. "Live and learn, I guess."

This was a lot of information for you to take in. "What should I do?" You asked pleadingly. "I hate to have daddy so upset with me. We never fight like this..."

"Just give him time," she reminded you. "And for God's sake, don't let this delicious breakfast go to waste!"

Later that day, Daddy was sitting out on the lawn tanning, reading a book. It had an angel on the front and you figured it had to be another one of his religious ones. He was always reading them. "Hey Daddy, can I talk to you?"

He didn't immediately do or say anything, and you thought he was now giving you the silent treatment, but finally he laid his book flat on his chest, peering over at you with a raised brow. "I'm listenin'," he said.

You shuffled back and forth on your feet as you tried to think of what to say to move past this rift between you two. You didn't want to give up your burgeoning freedom, but it was worse having him stay mad at you like this; you just couldn't bear it any longer.

"'M sorry for hurting you like I did last night. It was all so new and... and, I didn't even know what I was really saying yes to. I just wanted to fit in but none of that matters if I don't have my daddy anymore."

Some of what you said might've been the right thing, for he opened his arms wide to fold you into his embrace. "You have me, honey bee, you have me. But thank you for sayin' that, baby. I hate fightin' too, and I missed ya somethin' real awful. You know we ain't ever gone to bed mad? And I don't wanna start now." He began peppering you with kisses to your cheek and forehead, no longer held back. It made your heart sing to be close again with your daddy; when he was sweet like this to you there was no one that made you happier on earth.

"But ya gotta understand why I was so angry with you, pumpkin. Ya know that, right?"

You picked at his shirt where the buttons lay open on his big hairy chest. "Yeah, daddy, I know."

"I need to hear you say it, darlin'." He picked up your chin to look him in the eye with his forefinger.

"It's 'cause I disobeyed you."

"And how did you disobey me, hunny?"

"I agreed to go on a date with a boy."

"That's right, baby." He kissed you some more, real sweet-like. "Why's that wrong?"

"Because...because they're trouble and I'm a special girl, and you don't want nothin' bad to happen to me."

He hummed, looking like a weight was lifted off him. "That's right, satnin. My special, innocent little girl." He patted my hair with a smile so wide it made my heart hurt.

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[thebroccolination]

KRIST TREATS HIS DRIVER TO A NEW OUTFIT

So Krist has a driver/bodyguard, Thoey, and he just uploaded a video in which he surprised Thoey by treating him to a new outfit. :’)

He asked to go to the mall, and when they got there, he revealed that they were actually there for Thoey. They walked around Robinsons, chose some new clothes, and just generally seemed to enjoy each other’s company.

He’s such a sweetheart. :’) He’s known for his kindness and generosity with coworkers, friends, family, and fans, and of course, the people who work for him whether they be his restaurant staff or his driver. He’s such a good egg. <3

[cowprintsillies]

[taps microphone twice, salesman voice]

DO YOU LIKE GENERATION LOSS? DO YOU LIKE THE MAGNUS ARCHIVES?

WELL BOY DO I HAVE A CROSSOVER FIC FOR YOU! (please it’s in the style of the transcript and everything) (it’s even got footnotes) (it took a month)

IT FEATURES:

Gerry Keay & Gertrude! Ranboo & Charlie! Sneeg! Oliver Banks! Spiders!

ITS GOT:

GenLoss crew as avatars! Biblically accurate formatting! Footnotes! Banter! Gore implied though auditory descriptions! Spiders! No content warnings! A 6k word count! Mall exploration!

THE SUMMARY? GLAD YOU ASKED:

[THE RECORDING APPEARS TO HAVE BEGUN MIDWAY THROUGH THE SENTENCE, SLIGHTLY MUFFLED]

GERARD

-u’re sure this is worth it?

GERTRUDE

Aldelard Dekker certainly seems to think so.

GERARD

[muttered] I think you’re finally losing the battle against old age.

GERTRUDE

You want to stop the birth of The Extinction as much as I do, Gerard, and the location seems rather promising.

or: Life changing fieldtrip with Gertrude Robinson, next stop, an abandoned mall.

-

Thank you for coming to my sales pitch

[stroebe2]

favorite songs of 2024

porter robinson - cheerleader

vegyn - a dream goes on forever (feat. john glacier)

justice - neverender (feat. tame impala)

charli xcx - von dutch

oklou - harvest sky (feat. underscores)

kendrick lamar - not like us

rustie - black ice mudra

vince staples - étouffée

caribou - broke my heart

playboi carti - all red

maxo kream - bang the bus

oklou - family and friends

yung lean & bladee - golden god

kendrick lamar - heart pt. 6

justice - generator

porter robinson - is there really no happiness?

future & metro boomin - like that (feat. kendrick lamar)

a. g. cook - soulbreaker

jamie xx/the xx - waited all night

porter robinson - knock yourself out XD

don toliver - attitude (feat. charlie wilson & cash cobain)

kelly lee owens - love you got

charli xcx - 360

varg2 - h2d (feat. ecco2k & bladee)

leon vynehall - duofade

skaiwater - rain

memphis lk - say (feat. willaris. k)

effy & mall grab - iluv (vip)

burial - phoneglow

f5ve - underground

quavo & lana del rey - tough

gucci mane - leak

fka twigs - perfect stranger

addison rae - diet pepsi

tyler the creator - sticky (feat. glorilla, sexyy red & lil wayne)

[pjplayground]

The Robinsons and Mario Kart Wii

Floating around Tumblr now is the headcanon that the Robinsons are a Nintendo household. I agree! So I'm gonna share something I've had written down in a notebook for a while now: What each Robinson mains in MKWii!

Why MKWii and not MK8? Because MK8 is painfully average and boring. Where's the jank? The standalone mini turbos? The busted stats? THE PROPER INSIDE DRIFT?! Everything in MK8 is balanced and boring. Therefore, no competition. MKWii is chaos, and therefore perfect for a Robinson game night!

Because I'm extra, as well as including their favorite characters to play, I will also include: Preferred vehicle, fav track, and fav OST. Plus a little paragraph of how they play. Listen, MKWii was one of my hyperfixations when I was little. I know this game by the back of my hand. LET'S GET INTO THIS!

Bud - Koopa Troopa: Standard Bike S Fav Track: Koopa Cape Fav OST: Koopa Cape (Pipe) - He's not the best at the game by a long shot, but he'll play it for the grandbaby. At least he gets the chance to play on his favorite track from when Neil would want to play with him back in the day.

Lucille - Toadette: Mini Beast Fav Track: DS Yoshi Falls Fav OST: N64 Sherbet Land - Same point for Bud can be said about Lucille. The Sherbet Land OST reminds her of her first Christmas with Neil.

Fritz/Petunia - Daisy: Wild Wing Fav Track: N64 Mario Raceway Fav OST: No Trophy For You! - Beginner level skills. Fritz plays for fun, but Petunia plays for competition! Daisy reminds him of her.

Laszlo - Baby Luigi: Jet Bubble Fav Track: Coconut Mall Fav OST: Coconut Mall - Intermediate level of skills. He can perform some easy shortcuts, like the Mushroom Gorge and DK Summit gap jumps. He also holds the opinion that Coconut Mall is the GOAT. He's not wrong.

Tallulah - Rosalina: Honeycoupe Fav Track: Moonview Highway Fav OST: Daisy Circuit - Casual player with an intermediate level of skills. She can perform certain shortcuts, she just doesn't because she's not overly competitive... unless she's playing against Laszlo.

Joe - Birdo: Classic Dragster Fav Track: DS Delfino Square Fav OST: DS Peach Gardens - Purely casual player. However, he might secretly get a leg up on you in the race. Why? He's lucky with the item RNG.

Billie - Dry Bones: Tiny Titan Fav Track: Wario's Gold Mine Fav OST: DK Summit - Competitive casual type. She is in it to win most of the time, but she's the type to not really want to improve her skills.

Gaston - Waluigi: Wario Bike Fac Track: GCN Waluigi Stadium Fav OST: GCN Waluigi Stadium - Speed is key for him, and he loves all the tracks where he can go ham and perform a bunch of tricks. Speed is his key, but he doesn't have the knowledge of which character and kart combos will allow him to gain that speed.

Art - Toad: Blue Falcon Fav Track: Rainbow Road Fav OST: Online Boss Theme - Back in MKWii's hay day, he played all of the online content. Like the boss battles and competitive races. It's because of this that he has knowledge of all the tips of the trade.

Carl - Baby Mario: Bullet Bike Fav Track: Mushroom Gorge Fav OST: Block Plaza - Really only plays it when Wilbur wants him to. He's programmed to be a decent challenger. So... not like the CPUs in the game, lol. Even in Mirror Mode, the CPUs are a joke.

Spike/Dmitri - Diddy Kong: Dolphin Dasher Fav Track: Moo Moo Meadows Fav OST: N64 DK's Jungle Parkway - They don't play often, which is why they tend to stick to the easier cups and engine classes.

Wilbur - Bowser Jr.: Sneakster Fav Track: Bowser's Castle Fav OST: Maple Treeway - He's made it his life mission to upstage his father in skill. Good luck to him, because Neil knows the ultra shortcuts and all of the hidden stats.

Franny - Yoshi: Wild Wing Fav Track: GCN Peach Beach Fav OST: Maple Treeway - Keeps it casual when asked. But otherwise? You're going down. Her weakness is the jankiness of the game.

Cornelius - Mario: Mach Bike Fav Track: Rainbow Road Fav OST: Rainbow Road - The master of jank. He can perform ultra shortcuts like the Grumble Volcano rock hop/respawn glitch and the Mushroom Gorge cliff ride. He's beaten every fast staff ghost. He's got the item RNG on lock. He has no respect for the key checkpoints. He knows which bikes to use and what characters are best. He shows no mercy. Side note - The RR OST gives him an eargasm every time with its nods to Super Mario Galaxy (his favorite Mario game).

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Theo Moudakis :: @TheoMoudakis :: @TorontoStar

* * * *

MAGAt GROTESQUERIE

TCinLA

Sep 29, 2024

Roseanne Barr: They eat babies. It’s true.

Tucker Carlson: So it’s not just the dogs and cats?

Roseanne Barr: Everybody thinks I’m crazy. I’m not crazy. They love the taste of human flesh and they drink human blood.

Tucker Carlson: I think you have some authority on this.

And also:

Fresh off an appearance on Tucker Carlson’s extremist election tour (above), Republican vice-presidential nominee J.D. Vance is set to sit for a Pennsylvania town hall hosted by far-right Christian nationalist Lance Wallnau. Wallnau has pushed a litany of extreme views, including that Vice President Kamala Harris embodies “the spirit of Jezebel,” saying earlier this mont:

“What you’re seeing now is a real Jezebel. When you’ve got somebody operating in manipulation, intimidation and domination — especially when it’s in a female role trying to emasculate a man who is standing up for truth — you’re dealing with the Jezebel spirit. So, with Kamala, you have a Jezebel spirit, a characteristic in the Bible that is the personification of intimidation, seduction, domination and manipulation.”

You cannot make this shit up. Former Republican Peter Wehner wrote about this in The Atlantic this week. All these points need repeated emphasis:

The Republican Freak Show :: By: Peter Wehner

The GOP is a moral freak show, and freak shows attract freaks. Which is why Mark Robinson fits in so well in today’s Republican Party.

Robinson, the Republican candidate for governor in North Carolina, has described himself as a “devout Christian.” But a recent CNN story reported that several years ago, he was a porn-site user who enjoyed watching transgender pornography (despite a history of an anti-transgender rhetoric), referred to himself as a “Black Nazi,” and supported the return of slavery. According to CNN, commenters on the website discussed whether to believe the story of a woman who said she was raped by her taxi driver while intoxicated. Robinson wrote in response, “And the moral of this story….. Don’t f**k a white b*tch!” Politico reports that Robinson’s email address was also registered on Ashley Madison, a website for married people seeking affairs. (Robinson, the current lieutenant governor of North Carolina, has denied all of the claims.)

These allegations aren’t entirely shocking, because Robinson—a self-described “MAGA Republican”—has shown signs in the past of being a deeply troubled person.

Regarding the dedication of the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial, in 2011, Robinson wrote, “Get that fucking commie bastard off the National Mall!” Robinson also has referred to the slain civil-rights champion as “worse than a maggot,” a “ho fucking, phony,” and a “huckster.” During the Obama presidency, Robinson wrote, “I’d take Hitler over any of the shit that’s in Washington right now!” He promoted the conspiracy theory claiming that Obama was born in Kenya. He referred to Michelle Obama as a man and Hillary Clinton as a “heifer.” He compared Nancy Pelosi to Hitler, Mao, Stalin, and Castro and mocked the near-fatal assault on her husband, Paul Pelosi. He is also an election denier, claiming that Joe Biden “stole the election.”

In 2017, Robinson wrote, “There is a REASON the liberal media fills the airwaves with programs about the NAZI and the ‘6 million Jews’ they murdered.” He has used demeaning language against Jews and gay people. He has cruelly mocked school-shooting survivors (“media prosti-tots”). And he supported a total ban on abortion, without exceptions for rape or incest, even though he admitted that he’d paid for an abortion in the past.

Much of this was known before he ran for governor. No matter. Republicans in North Carolina nominated him anyway, and Donald Trump has lavished praise on the man he calls his “friend,” offering Robinson his “full and total endorsement” and dubbing him “one of the hottest politicians” in the country.

SOME REPUBLICANS ARE distancing themselves from Robinson partly because they are worried he’ll be defeated, but also because they’re even more concerned that he will drag down other Republicans, including Trump. But the truth is that Robinson is a perfect addition to the Republican ensemble.

The GOP vice-presidential candidate, J. D. Vance, has been relentlessly promoting the lie that Haitians in Springfield, Ohio, were abducting and eating pets. In 2021, he said that the United States was being run by Democrats, corporate oligarchs, and “a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives and the choices that they’ve made and so they want to make the rest of the country miserable, too.”

Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene has blamed wildfires on a Jewish space laser, promoted a conspiracy alleging that some Democratic Party leaders were running a human-trafficking and pedophilia ring, and agreed with commenters who suggested that the 2018 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, in Florida, was a “massive false flag.” Another House Republican, Paul Gosar, has promoted fluoride conspiracy theories and posted an animated video depicting him slashing the throat of a Democratic congresswoman and attacking President Biden. Yet another Republican member of Congress, Lauren Boebert, was ejected from a family-friendly musical for vaping, being disruptive, and groping her date (and vice versa). She also falsely claimed that school authorities “are putting litter boxes in schools for people who identify as cats.”

The Atlantic’s Elaine Godfrey reported that Republican Representative Matt Gaetz, who is under House investigation for having sex with an underage girl, “used to walk around the cloakroom showing people porno of him and his latest girlfriend,” according to a source Godfrey spoke with.

This is not normal.

The GOP is home to a Republican governor, Kristi Noem, who describes in her book shooting her 14-month-old dog, Cricket, in a gravel pit, as well as killing an unnamed goat. A Republican senator, Ron Johnson, claimed that COVID was “pre-planned” by a secret group of “elites” even while he promoted disinformation claiming that Ivermectin, which is commonly used to deworm livestock, was an effective treatment for COVID. (Because people were hospitalized for taking the drug, the FDA tweeted, “You are not a horse. You are not a cow.”)

Earlier this month, Trump attended a 9/11 memorial event in New York City. He took as his guest a right-wing conspiracy theorist, Laura Loomer, who has claimed that 9/11 was an inside job, referred to Kamala Harris as a “drug using prostitute,” and said that Democrats should be tried for treason and executed. (Trump has called Loomer a “woman with courage” and a “free spirit.”)

Trump’s first national security adviser, Michael Flynn, floated the idea of having Trump declare martial law so that he could “rerun” the 2020 election. He suggested that the president should seize voting machines. He predicted that a governor will soon declare war. He has also warned about the dangers of a “new world order” in which people such as Bill Gates, George Soros, and World Economic Forum Executive Chairman Klaus Schwab “have an intent to track every single one of us, and they use it under the skin. They use a means by which it’s under the skin.”

Tucker Carlson, a keynote speaker at the Republican National Convention and an unofficial Trump adviser, recently hosted a Holocaust revisionist on his podcast. He praised the conspiracy theorist Alex Jones as having been “vindicated on everything” and described Jones as “the most extraordinary person” he has ever met. (Two years ago, Sandy Hook families won nearly $1.5 billion in defamation and emotional-distress lawsuits against Jones for his repeatedly calling the 2012 school shooting, in which 20 first graders and six educators were killed, a hoax staged by “crisis actors” to get more gun-control legislation passed. As The New York Times reports, “The families suffered online abuse, personal confrontations and death threats from people who believed the conspiracy theory.”) (TC Note: all of Jones’ InfoWars property is being disposed of by court order to satisfy the judgement against him)

Carlson, one of the most influential figures on the American right, has also peddled the claim that the violence on January 6, 2021, was a “false flag” operation involving the FBI and used to discredit Trump supporters; alleged that former Attorney General Bill Barr covered up the murder of Jeffrey Epstein; and promoted testicle tanning.

Then there’s Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a former Democrat who recently endorsed Trump. The former president has asked Kennedy to be on his transition team should Trump win the election and “help pick the people who will be running the government and I am looking forward to that.” Trump told CNN’s Kristen Holmes, “I like him, and I respect him. He’s a brilliant guy. He’s a very smart guy.”

Sara Dorn of Forbes listed some of the conspiracy theories that Kennedy has promoted—vaccines can cause autism; COVID was genetically engineered and is targeted to attack Caucasian and Black people (and Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese people are mostly immune); mass shootings are linked to Prozac; the 2004 presidential election was stolen from John Kerry; the CIA was involved in the death of his uncle John F. Kennedy; and Sirhan Sirhan was wrongly convicted of murdering his father.

In addition, Kennedy, who has revealed that he had a parasitic brain worm, told the podcaster Joe Rogan that Wi-Fi causes cancer and “leaky brain.” He believes that chemicals in the water supply could turn children transgender. He claims that 5G networks are being used for mass surveillance. He’s said that Katherine Maher, the president and CEO of NPR, is a CIA agent. “Even journals like Smithsonian and National Geographic … appear to be compromised by the CIA,” according to Kennedy.

According to Kennedy’s daughter Kick Kennedy, her father chain-sawed the head off a dead whale on a beach in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts, bungee-corded it to the roof of their car, and drove it five hours to the family home in Mount Kisco, New York. (The severed head streamed “whale juice” down the side of the family minivan on the trip home. “It was the rankest thing on the planet,” Kick told Town & Country magazine in 2012. “We all had plastic bags over our heads with mouth holes cut out, and people on the highway were giving us the finger, but that was just normal day-to-day stuff for us.”) Kennedy has also recently admitted to leaving the carcass of a bear cub in Central Park a decade ago, as a joke.

Donald Trump Jr. has said that he could see Kennedy being given some sort of oversight role in any number of government agencies if his father is reelected, including the FDA and the Department of Health and Human Services. “I can see a dozen roles I’d love to see him in.”

Like Mark Robinson, RFK Jr. fits right in.

THE REPUBLICAN PARTY today isn’t incidentally grotesque; like the man who leads it, Donald Trump, it is grotesque at its core. It is the Island of Misfit Toys, though in this case there’s a maliciousness to the misfits, starting with Trump, that makes them uniquely dangerous to the republic. Since 2016, they have been at war with reality, delighting in their dime-store nihilism, creating “alternative facts” and tortured explanations to justify the lawlessness and moral depravity and derangement of their leader.

None of this is hidden; it is on display in neon lights, almost every hour of every day. No one who supports the Republican Party, who casts a vote for Trump and for his MAGA acolytes, can say they don’t know.

They know.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, in an essay titled “As Breathing and Consciousness Return,” warned that no one who “voluntarily runs with the hounds of falsehood” will be able to justify himself to the living, or to posterity, or to his friends, or to his children. Don’t surrender to corruption, the great Russian writer and dissident said; strive for the liberation of our souls by not participating in the lie. Don’t consent to the lies. The challenges facing Solzhenitsyn were quite different, and certainly far more difficult, than anything we face, but his fundamental point still holds.

The Trump movement is built on layers of lies. It’s late, but it’s never too late to liberate yourself from them. One word of truth outweighs the world.

[TCinLA]

[raxxinrr]

SYNOPSIS: In another world, you and Caleb are just Senior High School students. to be more specific, it is a short filo fanfic made by me :)

DISCLAIMER: this is a fan fiction based on an otome game called LOVE AND DEEPSPACE, this is just a fan fiction I made and the content is not part of the official storyline. It involves characters or settings from the original story, but with significant deviations. It is my way for me to express my deepest love for the game! So this is for fan enjoyment only :)

PS: (expect grammatical errors and this is unedited)

JEEPNEY

First meeting niyo ni Caleb is sa loob ng jeep. Bakasyon ngayon kaya sinusulit mo na dahil malapit na rin ang start ng school. Gagala ka sana mag-isa papunta ng Robinson kasi gusto mo mag-spend ng time alone.

Naka-upo ka sa front seat ng jeep dahil occupied na sa likod at tsaka maaga ka na rin sumakay bago pa mapuno. Si Caleb papasok na sana sa loob kaso nahuli siya kaya hindi na naka abot sa huling naiwan na space. Kaya nagsalita yung driver,

“boss dito ka na lang sa tabi ni ganda, wala pa namang siyang katabi.”

He hurriedly walked to the side of the jeep and looked at you, “pwede ba tumabi, miss?” syempre tumango ka nakakahiya naman kung tumanggi ka. He sat down beside you, so close that your legs are almost pressing against his. Sa una, he’s stealing glances at you, hanggang sa medjo obvious na sa’yo

“may dumi ba sa mukha ko?”

“h-huh?…ahh wala, ang cute mo lang kasi—shit..haha”

You chuckled “Sus..pa simple ka pa diyan.”

You both spoke to each other until nagkakilala kayo and actually exchanged contacts. Nalaman mo lang na same pala kayo ng school na ina-attend. Both of you hadn’t realized the time since ine-enjoy niyong dalawa yung usapan niyo, hindi niyo namalayan na nasa paradahan na pala kayo sa harap ng mall and coincidentally, parehas kayo ng balak. Hindi mo inaakalang makakasama mo siya sa loob ng mall.

Nag-cine kayo, arcade, nag-shopping, sinamahan ka niya bumili ng skin care, cosmetics and other necessities you need sa Watson. He also accompanied you inside the National Book Store! Syempre, sabay na rin kayong ng late lunch na akala mo’y date na ang ginagawa niyong dalawa…

FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL!

You’re walking through the hallway, napaka crowded (of course naman kasi nga FDS ngayon e) maingay, may mga nakangiti kasi na-miss nila ang mga tropa nila, yung iba devastated kasi may pasok na naman, yung iba mukhang puyat. You smiled excitedly ‘cause you missed this…

Suddenly, someone covered your eyes with a large warm hand,

“hulaan mo kung sino~”

Halata sa boses pa lang, you recognized who it was immediately.

“Caleb! Umagang umaga nangungulit ka!”

“ikaw naman pips, ang sungit mo” sabay alis ng kamay at pasimpleng pisil ng pisngi mo, he wrapped an arm around shoulder and proceed to accompany you. Hinatid ka niya kung saan naka assign classroom mo but before that, he pretended that he’s not familiar sa Building ng SHS kasi gusto ka niya makasama. Kaya ayun, na-late kayo pero naka attend pa rin ng flag ceremony.

KAPITBAHAY

Inutusan ka ng mama mo na magbigay ng linuto niyang pancit at leche flan para sa bagong lipat na neighbor niyo. You obediently took the food that was put on a plate at dinala sa labas, medjo nakakalat ang mga few boxes na mukhang gamit nila. You proceed to knock on their door and to your surpise…

“pips?!? ikaw ang yung kinukulit sa akin ni tanda bisitahin sa kabilang bahay?”

Sabay hug say’yo ng mahigpit na akala mo’y ilang years na hindi na nagkita, you almost spilled the food if it were not for your strength to handle his tight embrace.

“Hoy ano ba?! kita mong may hawak akong pagkain dito! Punyeta ka talaga Caleb!”

Medjo nag-pout siya before pisilin ang pisngi mo, he took the food from your hand and went inside their house while whisling happily.

“tara na pips, sabayan mo na kami ni tanda kumain ng dala mong meryenda.”

After eating together with his Lola Josephine, nag-volunteer ka na ring tumulong sa kanila kahit tumangi si Caleb.

After that, araw-araw ka na lang yinayaya ni Caleb para tumambay sa bahay nila. Laging may naka handang meryenda at videoke para sa inyong dalawa. He always take you in his room and show you his interests to cheer you up when you’re upset or sometimes when you’re getting exhausted of being constantly misunderstood, lagi ka niyang kino-comfort at nagsasabi ng corny jokes mapatawa ka lang. Siya yung tipong pasimpleng ihu-hug ka niya para ma-comfort ka pero ang totoo, he just wants to feel your warm skin against his. Omg!

BEST FRIENDS

After ilang weeks, nasanay ka ng kasabay si Caleb sa pag-dating at pag-uwi na lahat naman ng school mates mo na akala ay kayo na. Halata na e, halata na sa kilos ni Caleb pero ikaw naman itong si manhid, akala mo normal lang since best friends kayo.

(he’s not aware of his own actions and feelings)

May times na parang halata siya na may gusto sa’yo sa paraang pagiging clingy niya or magpla-play siya ng music na “Tibok” by Earl Agustin kasi ‘uso’ raw ngayon.

(in short, in denial siya sa feelings niya dahil ayaw niya masira ang friendship na meron kayo)

Minsan pag magha-hang out kayo ng friends mo, lagi siyang kasama kahit hindi naman invited, kaya laging ina-assume ng friends and classmates mo na you’re both secretly dating pero nung dineny mo tsaka best friend lang talaga tingin mo sa kanya, inaasar na nila palagi si Caleb

(he also denied it but deep down, he felt a bit disappointed and hurt pero totoo naman)

Lagi ka niya hinihintay after class at kapag ikaw na ang naka assign na cleaner, tinutulungan ka niya maglinis, nage-expect ka na rin ng mga comments ng classmates mo like, “hoy! Narito na yung shota ni Y/n oh!”, “hindi ba kayo napapagod maging sweet sa isa’t isa?” or “Ang sipag talaga ng boyfriend ni y/n, sana meron din ako niyan”

Expect him to carry your bag while you both walk out of the school, lagi ka niyang yinayaya minsan kumain ng tusok-tusok at sabay tambay sa favorite spot niyo sa park para mag-usap.

WHAT KIND OF STUDENT IS HE?

Academic achiever yan, kahit bihira lang makinig sa klase lagi naman siyang top student and perfect score sa mga exam and quizzes.

Maraming fan si Caleb, may times na accidentally niyang nakita ang fanpage about him na ginawa ng mga fan girls but he couldn’t care less about it since ikaw lang ang iniisip niya, kung ano ang ginagawa mo.

Makulit to, isa siya sa ‘boys at the back’ kahit good boy, pero magaling ito mang-gago ng kaklase niya. May oras na nakikisali siya sa mga kaklase niya magtago ng bag o maglagay ng bato sa bag ng kaklase niya.

Varsity player ‘to ng basketball, siya yung palaging pinipili ng coach nila for the fact that he’s one of the best players. Bago siya magsho-shoot ng bola, hahanapin ka muna sabay ngiti “para sa’yo ‘to, pips ko!” nakakagulat na lang na he never misses, ganon siya kalakas at ganon din kalakas ang dating niya sa’yo.

Lagi ka niyang tinutulungan sa assignment mo at projects since same naman kayo ng STRAND na kinuha (STEM since he’s going to be a pilot) aattend din siya and magstu-study at an aviation college after mag-graduate high school.

He loves to take care of you, daig pa ang mag-asawa kung makapag alaga siya sa’yo kahit wala namang label?

Seloso ito, pag physical education class niyo na at required na may partner na lalaki— galit na galit na akala mo’y gf ka niya na nagchea-cheat. Nag-request pa siya sa subject teacher niyo secretly na I-pair ka na lang sa babae (dinedeny pa rin niya feelings niya noong tinanong ng teach niyo na “gf mo ba siya?”)

Laging may dalang dalawang lunch box ‘to sa school; isa para sa kanya at isa para sa iyo. May oras din na ‘accidentally’ niyang nakalimutan magdala ng isa pang lunch box pero punong puno yung dala niya, halatang pang-dalawahang tao para lang magpa-subo sa’yo. Deep inside, kinikilig kayong dalawa kasi nagshe-share kayo ng spoon and that means nag-indirect kiss na kayo. Lagi siyang nakangiti habang nagluluto ng baon niyo kasi ayaw niyang kumain kayo sa labas, he only wants to see you eat healthy foods he makes.